530 Fourth of the Green Moon ② - Reunion

When we visited Kimmus's Tail Pavilion that night, the cook was waiting for Milan-Math, who looked painful.

"Milan-Mus! Is your body okay?

"Hmm. There's nothing wrong with this injury."

Behind that word, Milan-Math had been slackened.

On his head and left shoulder, he's wearing a bandage. Terrier-Mass said it wasn't a big scratch, but I don't think so very much. She looked pale, had a neighborhood under her eyes, and looked more like a sick person than an injured person.

"The pain medication doesn't suit me very well. That made me belly down, and I was going to carry a hardship I didn't need.... than that, you guys are in trouble again."

"That's not true. Don't worry about it, cure it."

"That's right. If you can't do it and make it physically bad, you'll be extra bothered, won't you? I have to go back to my room and rest."

Terrier-Mass said the same, but Milan-Mus has looked in turn at the people by the woods who are on the spot.

"... I'm so sorry for all the trouble I've put into this, and again, I appreciate it. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I should be able to move properly, so please, until then, I need you to help my daughter."

"If your shoulder bones come off, you think the hunter's gonna be off for ten days or half a month? Sleep tight without forcing yourself."

And, laughing, Rudd-Lou advanced.

"Look, I'll lend you my shoulder. Don't worry, your daughter keeps the inn in good hands. Asta and Sister Raina can do something about what's missing."

"Uhm......" Milan-Mus stood up, nodding powerlessly. That's how Rud-Lew leaves the cook, supported by him.

"That sounds pretty bad for you. Have you lost your belly?"

"Yes... the pain medication was for three days so I think it will be a little better tomorrow or so..."

"But if your shoulder bones came off, which job wouldn't be possible for a while. Me and Asta will help you until Milan-Mus can work."

That's what I said, Rayna-Lew laughed at Terrier-Mass.

Terrier-Mass says, "Thank you......" and makes me cry again.

"Now let's get to work. I mean, it's everybody's stomach first."

"Uhm! What are you feeding me today?

Even today, the escort had the same face rash.

Dan-Rutim is laughing delightfully, and Ai-Fa and Giza Rue are looking out the entrance and exit doors and windows with a serious face. Knowing the unusual qualities of a person named Doug, the Ai-Fas felt stuck out more than they did last night.

Meanwhile, everyone's meals and cooking work begin.

Even today the soldiers of the King's Capital returned late, so the ordering of food was also at a loose pace.

The dedication is much the same as last night. The only difference is that the dish I could buy from the Lew family has been changed from 'Roll Tino' to 'Vinegar Giva'.

"… it seems that the story of Asta and the others helping with the cooking has already reached other inns."

and Terrier-Mass told me that story while encouraging me to work.

"During the day, another innkeeper came all the way here to talk to me. So they were eager to hear about the soldiers in Wang Du… If there wasn't a commotion for a while, we might have a visitor for Asta."

"Really? Even if I'm not here, it's strange, even though it doesn't change the content of the dish."

"That's not true. Didn't the soldiers say last night that they felt like they were cooking well? Even in the same dish, when it's still in Asta's or Rayna-Lew's hands, it makes a difference in performance."

"If that's the case, Terrier-Mass will have to brush his arms as well. You wouldn't mean it if they told you that once we were gone, the flavor had dropped, right? There, you have to get excited."

Just kidding, I made him answer like that.

"If you like, join me as much as possible today to cook. I think you'll see if there's any difference between me and Terrier-Mass."

"Thank you.... I'm sure if my mother had lived, she would have handled me like this"

Saying so, Terrier-Mass smiled at him.

"I will never forget this grace. I'd like to encourage Asta and the others to return this favor one day."

"This is the one who's giving you back. I haven't given it back yet."

Later that way, Late came to the cook.

"The soldiers are back. They're ordering Giva food from the beginning today."

"Right. Is it up to you again?

"Yes, it's the same as yesterday. Which portion?"

The difference from yesterday is about 'vinegar giva' so there will be no problem. "Vinegar Gibba" is a dish for making, so there is no need to worry about raw baking.

"Oh, Late, will the Vinegar of Mammalia ever be hated by the people of the King's Capital? Although it took some time for the taste of Mammalian vinegar to be accepted in the Inn Town."

"Yes, that's because by Cycleus, Mammalian vinegar wasn't distributed to the boarding town, was it? Mammalian vinegar is also normally sold in the vicinity of Wangdu, so there should be no particular problem"

Then even more worrying seemed unnecessary.

In addition to "Vinegar Giva", we will continue to finish the dish of boiled with tarapa, the juice dish with tau oil, and the simple grilled meat dish to taste with Ustar sauce. Once again it was only the grilled meat dishes that baked the meat, so great care was taken there.

"Speaking of which, the soldiers of the King's Capital came to the stall today and ate Gibba's food."

And as we go about our work together, I call Terrier-Mass.

"At that time, there were so many people ordering 'Giva Curry'. Now that these soldiers can eat Giva food, don't you have to worry about the rest of the 'Giva Curry' sale?

"Really? Then I'd like to be ready tomorrow. I'm sure other customers are waiting for you."

It is how Terrier-Mass's expression is finally becoming brighter as well.

Thinking that way, Terrier-Mass smiled as if to haunt him.

"I feel a lot lighter just because soldiers are now ordered Giva food. It's still frustrating to be ridiculed for cooking Giva."

"Right. I'm really relieved."

That would make Ey-Fa feel the same way.

Thinking about it that way, I looked up to Ai-Fa, but my beloved parent still looked out the window, glancing at her both eyes like a bobcat.

Even though he is an eye-fa who has often had a calm look lately, he seems to have turned back to his tough parents again thanks to the people in the Wang capital.

But that never discouraged me.

Both Ai-Fa, who behaves like an age-appropriate daughter, and Ai-Fa, who behaves resolutely as a female hunter, seemed just as attractive to me.

While I was thinking about that, I could finish all the giva dishes for 20 servings.

I guess this will require the same amount of extra time again in a while. The soldiers of Wangdu had an unbeatable appetite for hunters by the woods.

"With this, there's no way there's going to be some crazy noise. You mean those soldiers don't feel hostile to us if it's not an order of nobility?"

Ziza-Lou crushed it to no one.

Then I heard Leyt's "trouble" as if he was waiting for it.

"Hey, is it the same look today? It's been a rough night."

It is Doug, a hundred lions long.

The hunters were each moving to a position where they could protect the Kamadoku number in charge as they glanced.

"Please don't. Are you sure you want to call the guards?

"So if you want to call me, do it yourself. In the meantime, we can do our errands."

Standing at the entrance to the cook, Doug turns his gaze to me with a grin.

"Hey, I need a favor from you. I don't know if you can ask me, Asta at Fa's house."

"What is it? I'm only helping with my job, so I can't copy anything on my own."

"It's not such a tough story. For Iphius, I want you to finish the dish."

That said, Doug put his hands on his tight hips.

"Looks like he totally liked the Giva food, too. I came all the way to this inn. But the food you're looking for hasn't come out, and it's totally gone."

"The dish you're looking for? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

"Look, you'd have put it up for sale yesterday, wouldn't you? Soft meat in a tino, that dish. He only eats soft food, so I taught him there's good food for you."

Indeed, today, 'Roll Tino' was not put up for sale.

Doug laughs cheerfully at Leyt's head.

"I told you during the day that he had a bad mouth, didn't I? This is how he lost his upper front teeth, so he can only bite things with his back teeth. So even the boiled meat is smashed into little pieces on a plate and pushed into the back of your mouth. Looks like the vanilla dish we ate during the day was hard work, too, huh?

"I see... but it takes a little while to cook that dish yesterday, doesn't it? If it was another dish that was just as soft, I wouldn't have to keep you waiting."

Answering that way, I looked back at Terrier-Mass.

There is another dish in the Kimmus Tail Pavilion, a dish made with Giva ground beef. Terrier-Mass nodded with a tense face.

"Gi, if it's Giva's meat dumplings, I think I can serve them right away. Fortunately, the ingredients are also there…"

"Then do it with him. If you can't do it, I want you to rub it all the way to us."

Leaving all that behind, Doug quickly disappeared.

Late looks back at this one as he sighs eloquently.

"I'm sorry. He has a strong temper..."

"It's okay. Because it's not uncommon for customers to make that offer."

Terrier-Mass smiled softly.

"Late, too, don't be too uptight. I'll be fine."

"Yes," laid eyes down.

It was somehow a childish trick that seemed more age-appropriate, with only Late and the others - or rather.

"So shall we finish the meat dough? Have you changed the way you make anything lately?

"No, it remains exactly as I learned it from Asta.... In the meantime, shall we serve about five servings?"

There were no other orders, so we decided to work on the job for three of us.

Grind the meat, refine the salt and pico leaves, and rub the dough's shape before passing through the fire in an iron pan. When the surface is cooked, throw in the fruit liquor, cover and steam. The accompaniment is the sautéed Aria, Nennon and Nanar, which were set on fire with the meat dumplings.

Once the fire has gone through them, I serve the meat dough and vegetables on a plate, then add a small amount of tau oil and mammalian vinegar to the gravy and fruit liquor left in the iron pan and rub the sauce. After adding a little powder of fuwano and thickening it, it is finished with the meat dough covered.

(A year ago I rubbed a hamburger for Grandma Ziva, and today it's meat dumplings for soldiers in Wang Du? I don't know... destiny is strange)

While I'm thinking that way, Late takes a five-serving plate to the dining room.

Ever since I saw that, I've heard Ai-Fa say, "Hey."

"The Ifius that the man was talking about, he was talking about Llada-Luu and Lyelfam-Sudra, that's another trick, isn't it?

"Oh. He lost his nose and upper jaw in the war. So I always wear a weird mask."

"... the man was talking about being a nobleman. Is he more troublesome than that dude named Doug?

"No, I had a creepy impression because of the mask, but from what I've seen interacting with other customers, I don't think it's even a rough temper"

I let him answer that way, remembering what was going on during the day.

Then an absurd voice echoed from around the entrance, "Right."

"Even when it comes to nobility, he's a cavalier, and he's a samurai from the roots. In that sense, I think he's a samurai-like samurai more than a mercenary-than-thou Doug. You don't have to worry about anything, even if the taste of the dish doesn't suit your taste."

I was truly surprised.

Rudd-Lou, with his hand on the knife, complains, "What the heck?"

"He said you shouldn't get close by killing signs at times like this! If I didn't know you, I'd be slaughtering you.

"I'm sorry. He wanted to speak up."

A little shadow stood at the entrance to the cook.

Blonde brown hair, inert mustache with the same color, slightly drooping eyes purple, meaty light face ivory. The person - whoever it was - was Camua-Josh from The Guardian, wrapped around a cloak for a journey to hide from his neck to his feet.

"I'm finally able to leave Castle Town, so I'm here to see how it goes. Looking good, Ai-Fa for Asta. And with Ziza-Lou and Rudd-Lou - were you only Dan-Lutim?"

"Uhm! You finally showed up! You look like a breath disaster, too!

I don't really remember how Camua-Josh and Dan-Rutim were interacting. But still, it's the same time we defeated Cycleus and the others. It was still vividly remembered that Dan-Rutim and Lau Ray had broken in by knocking on the door when Silel planned our murder.

"I've been touring the Inn Town for a bit, so it's getting late. I've heard from Late, but so far, you seem to be doing well without a wave."

Camua-Josh was laughing slightly unchanged when he said it was almost his first reunion in ten months or so.

"That's a hiccup, Camua-Josh. Chieftain Donda cared about you."

"That's, thank God. The Chiefs, too, seem to be suppressed of anger so far. Above all. The arrogance of the nobility of the King's capital will be filled with sarcastic depression."

Camua-Josh, who had stepped inside the cook, laughed at Terrier-Mass as well.

"Oh, Terrier-Mass looks good, too. I'm listening to Milan-Math. It was a total disaster."

"Oh, yes... that verse is a great help"

Terrier-Mass bows his head in a wandering manner.

It was my first time watching these two face each other.

"So, what were you talking about... oh, yeah. You were talking about Iphius. Though he is certainly a man of what we call nobility, I ask you to consider a man with a title and a man of the chivalry as something entirely separate. Not to mention he's a hundred lion chief sifting swords on the front line. As much as a beat-up mercenary, it would be better to recognize him as a human being who has lived in the path of the martial arts."

"Hmm. It's weird, seeing you makes even that Doug look cute"

That being said, Dan-Rutim stared seriously at Camua-Josh.

"We're not just talking about you being more armed. I know you and I are trained to slaughter humans and actually slaughter and dump a bunch of humans... but like that Doug guy, he's not spilling useless killing. I don't know how unusual that is."

"I'm not a soldier, I'm a Guardian. Plus, I try not to kill people as much as possible. You can't compare to them fighting for the kingdom."

"I guess so. Well, let's hear it in half."

Dan-Rutim smiled like a sneer and Ebisu.

Camua-Josh also has a blurry grin, unchanged.

"Damn, you're the same. You've been in Castle Town the whole time?

"Yeah, sort of," Rudd-Lou asked, and Camua-Josh looked back at you.

"In a way, Castle Town is so much harder to make a fuss about. Marquis Genos is so personable that he doesn't show any weakness... but, well, he must be standing up to all the spirits this time."

"Hmm. The Marquis of Genos is really hated by the Kings of the Capital."

"I'm more on guard than I am hated. The more famous Marquis Genos is, the more vigilant he will be in the king's capital."

"Why is that? I don't see any reason to weigh so much about land so far away in Totos"

When Giza-Lou clasped his mouth, Camua-Josh shrugged his shoulder a little.

"It's quite a hassle to explain that... do you guys know something called the Grand Duchy of Zerado?

"Ah, yes. I happen to be in town, so I have a lot to explain to the people who are here."

When I answered that, Camua-Josh lowered his eyes, "Well."

"Then maybe it's not that much trouble. Quickly, the people of King's Capital fear that Genos will be the second Zerad."

"The second gelad? I mean..."

"Yeah. Aren't you looking to escape the reign of the king capital Alglad and set up an independent state in the land of Selva - in short, they're putting it in jeopardy"

Camua-Josh said that with an unchanging smile.

"Besides, Marquis Genos would have paved a new way to activate his deal with Sims, the eastern kingdom, wouldn't he? And yet, beyond the mountains of Morga, there are plans to establish a new lodging town, aren't there? To come up with such a thing and move it into action is a sign that the Lord Genos is not mediocre… If you try to be a man of the King's capital, it will only deepen your suspicions."

"Why? I have no idea how that story is going to get involved."

"In other words, the Grand Duchy of Zerado also had a back shield for Jagal, so he could build on his strength that far. That led to the suspicion that Genos was looking to use Sims as a back shield."

Giza-Lou was frowning with a smiley look on his face.

Camua-Josh has his mandible with his hands out of his cape.

"In fact, where Genos is independent, it doesn't mean that much will be lost to the King's Capital. But then you can't keep the Kingdom's prestige. If the other lords break apart one after the other at that rate, the foundation of the kingdom will collapse once and for all. Even the people of the king's capital are desperate."

"... is the Marquis of Genos actually looking to do that?

"No. Doing that doesn't do the Marquis Genos any good. If you do that, the town in Selva territory will be banned from trading with Genos, and you will eventually receive a large army of crusading troops from the King's Capital. Unless you're possessed by the lust for power to name a king, there's no point in imitating it."

"Then what are the men of the king's capital so vigilant?

"So I guess that means they weigh the most on something called power. Humans are creatures who think of themselves as role models to determine their existence."

That being said, Camua-Josh looked back at the lid.

At the same time, it dissipates signs that the hunters have stuck around.

"So it's just a product of slippage but misunderstanding. I sincerely hope that the misunderstandings and certainties that exist between Wang Du and Genos can be solved as soon as possible."

"Hmm. Try us, it doesn't matter"

A laughing voice can be heard from the entrance.

But earlier than the Lord of that voice appeared, Late jumped into the cook.

"Camua, you were here. When were you even in the kitchen?

"Hey, Late seemed busy, so I didn't want to speak up,"

From after Late, the two figures also appeared.

Doug and Iphius the hundred lion lengths.

Doug was grinning slightly and Ifius was breathing sounds with Shkor.

"You're finally out of the stone walls, Camua-Josh. Is the Marquis de Genos amulet over?

"Yeah, well, there's only a few things I can do."

"Yeah," Doug giggled spirally.

"Whatever it is, all we can do is destroy our enemies as ordered by our superiors. I just want you to give me a job before the knife rusts."

"Your enemies are Mahdra and Zelad. Your enemies do not exist in this Genos."

"It's our superiors who decide that. That means His Majesty the King and the nobles who are above him."

That's what Doug's been looking at me for.

"This guy wants to thank you in person, so I brought him in. Hey, you've got some errands to run, Iphius."

"... it's a bite... it's a bite... it's a bite... it's a bite... it's a bite..."

"What do you say, you hear me?

"Did you say yes, it was very delicious...?

"It was delicious. I put extra effort into it, and I'm sorry, right? In fact, that meat dumpling was delicious. If you don't mind, I'd like you to rub twice as much as you did earlier."

Doug laughed bravely, and Iphius nodded sneakingly.

Then, Doug's eyes are turned to Camua-Josh again.

"You used to talk a lot about Giva food, didn't you, Camua-Josh? How come you weren't bragging to us about that on the road?

"You wanted the people of Wang Du to taste the Giva cuisine without prejudice. People will have their own mouths."

"Hmm. Is that your plan, too? It doesn't make sense to set us up against each other. As I've said many times, it's the people up there who decide everything."

Doug's eyes, reminiscent of the Raptors, invincibly flicker through the hunters by the woods.

"May I advise you only one thing in thanking you for eating delicious food? You don't mistreat nobles, do you? The people who came up to Genos this time, they have troublesome sexual roots, among other things."

"... Isn't that your monarch?

"Heh, the masters of our swords are generals and troop leaders. Besides, it is the nobles who give orders."

Doug pulled himself back as he stroked the sheath of his lowered sword on his hips.

"Bye. At the end of the day, I will order the same amount of Giva food, thank you very much. Hey, let's go, Iphius."

Iphius, having graced him with graceful manipulation, returned the quizzes.

Camua-Josh smiles and looks back at us.

"I think they had a pretty hard temper too, but you seemed a lot more flexible in just four days. After all, the power of delicious food is great."

"... but what matters is the nobles sitting in the castle town."

"Yeah. I do think those are troublesome people. It's troublesome again that you're not as bad as Cycleus or Silhouel."

"Hmm. If you're a bad guy and a sinner, you just have to smash it down. You know, being great and not being a bad guy can be a pain in the ass."

That's what Rudd-Lou said as he put his arms behind his head.

Using that as a signal, the three Kamadu decided to get to work.

As I move forward with that work, I look sideways at Camua-Josh.

"Has Camus finished his meal yet?

"No way. I came out of the castle to see Asta and the others, but I'm not going to waste it."

"Then let's make it together. Now that you can use different ingredients than before, I'm sure you'll be happy with the camouflage."

After saying that, I stopped working and turned to Camua-Josh.

"Well now, welcome back, Camua. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Yeah, me too. Asta seems to have grown a lot."

Laughing at the garlic, Camua-Josh also turned his eyes to Ai-Fa.

"I = fa seemed increasingly polished by the beauty.... Have you already given Asta a wedding or something?

"... I haven't seen you face to face in months, and the first word is that"

"Oh, those are scary eyes! Looks like your power as a hunter has been polished!

I laughed unexpectedly at Camua-Josh's behavior, which was so neat.

"What's wrong with it," Ai-Fa says, mumbling.

But in a situation like this, there will be no other human being who can count on it more than Camua-Josh. I sincerely wanted to survive a reunion with a friend who had this unpretentious charm.